Client work,
poured clean.
Formwork is the operations backbone for independent studios — proposals, contracts, invoicing, a branded client portal, and payment tracking, all poured into one frame that holds its shape under deadline pressure. No more chasing six tools to run one client relationship.
The frame.
Five stages, one continuous pour. A client never sees the seams between your brief, your proposal, your contract, your invoice, and your portal — because to Formwork, they're the same object, moving through one frame.
Capture scope before you say yes
A structured intake form turns a vague client email into a scoped brief — deliverables, timeline, and budget range, locked before the clock starts.
Send a proposal that closes itself
Branded line-item pricing, optional add-ons, and e-signature, built into one document your client can approve from their phone.
Auto-converts to a binding contract
The accepted proposal becomes the contract automatically — no retyping, no copy-paste, no version drift between what was sold and what was signed.
Deposits, milestones, and reminders
Schedule the payment plan once. Formwork sends the reminders, applies the late fees, and tells you the moment money clears.
Portal
One branded link, forever.
The pour.
Everything a one-person studio needs to run client work like a firm with a back office — minus the back office. Eight tools, one frame, zero context-switching.
Proposals that close themselves
Branded templates with line-item pricing, optional add-ons, and a deadline timer that nudges the client before they forget you exist.
- Reusable templates by service line
- Optional add-ons clients can toggle on
- E-signature baked in, no third-party tool
- Accepted proposal becomes the contract automatically
Contracts with teeth
A clause library built for creative work — usage rights, kill fees, revision caps — with a tamper-evident audit trail on every signature.
Payment tracking, live
See exactly which client owes what, when it's due, and whether it's been viewed — without opening a single spreadsheet.
Deposits & recurring retainers
Split payments by milestone, automate monthly retainers, and bill in 12 currencies without touching an exchange-rate sheet.
Scope-creep guard
Out-of-scope requests get routed straight to a change order — with new pricing — before they quietly eat your weekend.
Tax-ready, year round
Every invoice, deposit, and refund rolls into a clean export your accountant will actually thank you for — quarter by quarter, no scrambling in March.
Client CRM, not a spreadsheet
Every client's history — proposals, contracts, invoices, files, messages — lives on one timeline you can open in two clicks.
Usage-rights library, written for creatives
Drop the right clause into any contract in one click — no lawyer on retainer required.
One link. Your brand,
not ours.
Every client gets a single portal at your subdomain — your logo, your colors, your tone. No "powered by," no confusion about whose studio this is.
Brief, files, proposal, contract, invoices, and messages — no inbox archaeology required.
portal.yourstudio.com, your logo and palette — clients never see the word "Formwork."
Clients see exactly where the project stands — signed, in progress, awaiting payment.
The proof.
Formwork holds the shape for thousands of solo studios and small creative teams, from one-person photography practices to ten-person brand agencies.
"I used to lose a week chasing signatures and another chasing payment. Now the client signs, pays the deposit, and I'm shooting by Friday."
"The contract auto-converting from the proposal sounds small. It isn't. I haven't sent a mismatched scope in eight months."
"My clients think I have an ops team. I have Formwork and a portal with my logo on it. They've never noticed the difference."
Start small. Pour into a studio.
No setup fees, no per-client surcharges. Cancel anytime — the frame comes apart as cleanly as it goes up.
For one-person studios
- Unlimited proposals & contracts
- Up to 15 active clients
- Branded client portal
- Payment tracking + reminders
- Basic time tracking
For small creative teams
- Everything in Solo
- Unlimited clients
- Up to 5 teammates
- Recurring retainers + multi-currency
- Scope-creep guard + change orders
- Tax-ready quarterly exports
For growing studios
- Everything in Studio
- Unlimited teammates
- White-label portal domain
- Custom clause library
- Dedicated success manager
Questions, answered.
The fine print, in plain language — no buried clauses.
Yes. Every signature carries a timestamped, tamper-evident audit trail — IP address, device, and signing order — that holds up the same way DocuSign or HelloSign does in court.
All three. Cards and ACH settle automatically through your connected payment processor; wire transfers are tracked and reconciled by hand inside the same invoice.
Yours, on every plan. Solo and Studio get a branded subdomain (portal.yourstudio.com); Agency adds a fully white-label custom domain with no Formwork branding anywhere in the client experience.
It converts straight into a contract using the exact line items, pricing, and terms that were accepted — nothing is retyped, so there's never a gap between what was sold and what was signed.
No — it makes them faster. Formwork exports clean, categorized quarterly statements your accountant can drop straight into their books instead of reconstructing from screenshots.
Anytime, no contract on your contract software. You keep read-only access to every past proposal, contract, and invoice for 90 days after cancellation.
Strike the forms. Let the work stand on its own.
Once the frame has done its job, you strike it — and what's left stands on its own. That's the work Formwork does for your studio: invisible structure, visible results.
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